Hi,
This isn't rreally on the same topic as the preceeding one, but I'm so new at this that I don't really know how to go about actually starting a new thread. Hopefully this might be a help to at least some others. Thanks.
I think that I have a basic understanding of how to do a "Same Machine" update other than with this. There are two users of this computer, each with separate sites.It happens that each of us have rather extensive Outlook and Word files that I would really like to keep for ourselves. Will this happen automatically when using the Easy Transfer? If not, how could that separation be maintained. Further, will it be adequate to store a system image on an external USB hard drive? It is a 160GB Western Digital MyBook, which I have formatted so that there shouldn't be any conflicting files.Everything else in the computer can be shared, but I really would like to keep the Office files including addresses separated. That is Office 2007. It was so easy and straightforward to install the Beta - I sure wish that this could go as smoothly. That time everything reappeared as separate as it had been in Vista, and I sure wish that it could be that way again. Like I said, nothing else has much of a need for separation - the other user basically only uses the Outlook and Word, but it would be a great loss for both of us to either lose things or end up with everything scrambled. I will be downloading the W7 RC program as soon as it is generally available, and see no problem with burning the ISO to a DVD. By the way, will the W7 material fit onto a single DVD? I haven't been able to find any blank Blu-Ray disks , so I hope that such capacity won't be needed.
Is the new IE8 supposed to work any bertter than the version that came with the Beta? I sure hope so beaus my IE8 has been getting annoyingly cantankerous, and frequently just freezes up for no apparent reason. I was very disappointed to find that the publicly available IE8 wouldn't work with W7. Please be sure that you mark on your reply that I want to be emailed when it is posted. Thanks. Chuck E